Asheville area teen charged with theft, fraud

Eric Travis Clark, 18, of Brickyard Road, was charged Tuesday with breaking and entering and larceny, possession of stolen goods, and two counts of obtaining property by false pretense, according to warrants at the Buncombe County magistrate's office.

Clark is accused of breaking into a home on Palm Court, west of Asheville, and stealing jewelry, two iPods and an iPad valued at $5,000, then pawning the items for cash. Buncombe sheriff's officers made the arrest.

Clark is being held at the Buncombe County Detention Facility under a $3,000 bond.